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Subject to others : British women writers and colonial slavery, 1670-1834

Title
Subject to others : British women writers and colonial slavery, 1670-1834 / Moira Ferguson.
Author
Ferguson, Moira.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 1992.

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xiii, 465 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • English literature > History and criticism
  • Antislavery movements > Great Britain > Colonies
  • Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History
  • Women and literature > Great Britain > History
  • Slavery in literature
  • Colonies in literature
  • Black people in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-446) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Colonial Slavery and Protest: Text and Context -- Ch. 2. Oroonoko: Birth of a Paradigm -- Ch. 3. Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women: Displacement, Colonialism, Anti-Slavery -- Ch. 4. Inkle and Yarico: an Anti-Slavery Reading -- Ch. 5. Sentiment and Amelioration -- Ch. 6. Emerging Resistance -- Ch. 7. The Parliamentary Campaign: New Debates -- Ch. 8. The Radical Impulse: Before the French Revolution -- Ch. 9. The Radical Impulse: After the French Revolution -- Ch. 10. Reactions to San Domingo (1): Cheap Repository Tracts -- Ch. 11. Reactions to San Domingo (2): Sentiment, Suicide, and Patriotism -- Ch. 12. Women in the Provinces and Across the Irish Sea: Explosion of Agitation -- Ch. 13. Extending Discourse and Changing Definitions -- Ch. 14. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0415904757
  • 0415904765 (pbk.)
LCCN
92014984
OCLC
  • 25747810
  • ocm25747810
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries